Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy.
Alternative Title:
[Antidotarium]
Description:
Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges., Blank binder's leaves not scanned., Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored., Modern pencil foliation., On paper., Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand., and Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th cent., and Nicolaus,--Salernitanus,--12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Brandy, Distilling--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum et mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata. ; Additis eiusdem argumenti
De medicinali materia libri sex, Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex, Ioanne Rvellio Svessionensi interprete, and Pedanij Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex / Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium historijs, ad naturae aemulationem expressis imaginibus, seu uiuis picturis, ultra millenarium numerum adiectis ... ; Additis etiam annotationibus ... per Gualtherum Riuium, Argentinum, medicum. ; Accesserunt priori editioni, Valerij Cordi Simesusij Annotationes doctissimae in Dioscoridis De medica materia libros. ; Euricij Cordi Simesusij Iudicium de herbis & simplicibus medicinae, ac eorum quae apud medicos controuertuntur, explicatio. ; Herbarum nomenclaturae, uariarum gentium ... Aut. Conrado Gesnero, medico. Cum indice quintuplici copiosissimo ...
Description:
The sixth book comprises the De venenis and the De venenatis animalibus, which in the original edition of this translation (1516) were divided into 4 books called books 6-9.
Publisher:
Apud Chr. Egenolphum
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical --Early works to 1800, Materia medica, Vegetable --Early works to 1800, and Medicine, Greek and Roman --Early works to 1800
Quae hoc in uolumine tractantur : Bessarionis ... In calumniatore[m] Platonis libri quatuor ... Correctio librorum Platonis De legibus Georgio Trapezuntio interprete ... De natura & arte aduersus eundem Trapezunti
Publisher:
[In aedib. Aldi Romani]
Subject (Name):
Gazes, Theodoros, ca. 1400-ca. 1475, George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486, Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515, and Plato. Laws